The Sun. — London, England, 1838-10-15 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC Jo U ANAL& land both the Government and the Legislature should re - c •ive rebuke as well as counsel." And never, in the whole history of Parliamentary contumacy, was it more necessary to assert and enforce this principle than it is at the present moment. Nothing is to be expected from Parliamentary concession—everything from popular compulsion. In this consists the solution of every advance made or to be made in the improvement of our institutions, and in opening through them a free passage for the purifying current of popular opinion. The people being therefore the great instrument of their own regeneration, the essential to their success is the unanimous and combined action, not of one portion of the empire only, but of its three great divisions— England, Ireland, and Scotland. Whatever may be the individual grievances of each country, the wrongs of all have their origin in the want of a due representation of the people in the Legislature ; to supply this want should therefore be the great end and object of all. The most certain and feasibly means of obtaining this due represen tation are the Ballot and an extended Suffrage ; these therefore should be the great objects of every honest Re former in England, Ireland, and Scotland. Let, therefore, the watchword of the united people be " the Ballot and Household Suffrage." Let these be inscribed on every banner of Reform, and they will prove the trite " Precur sors" to the freedom, and, as a sequence to that freedom, the prosperity, happiness, and glory of the British Isles. Every attempt to divide the Reformers of Great Britain and Ireland into separate lines of action is injudicious, if not cri minal, as nothing can be effected without their perfect co operation. What can the Representatives of Ireland do in the United Parliament without the assistance of the Repre sentatives of England and Scotland, or the latter without the aid of those of Ireland? Nothing—nothing ; unless to become the derision and scoff of their Tory opponents. Yet thepeople of Ireland at onetime are called uponto shunthe Reformers of Great Britain, as if their assistance were not only use less, but worse—dangerous ; and at another time they are called upon to send deputations to the chief towns of Eng land and Scotland—the head-quarters of the Reformers— to explain their wrongs, and solicit co-operation in procur ing redress. Such inconsistency and vacillation is puerile, and contemptibly unworthy of the intelligence which should guide the action of- a whole people. We wish not to dwell on topics calculated to increase the disagree ment which we deprecate ; but we would calmly appeal to the people of Ireland, as men with whose wrongs we sympathise, and whose co-operation, in redress of mutual grievances, we are most desirous to secure ; and, on the part of the British Reformers, we would ask them, " With what grace can you come to seek our assist ance, if you sanction, the foul abuse and unmerited accusa tion which have been levelled at us ?" And we would add, " Our grievances, though differing from your's in degree,are similar in character. If you have your tithes, we have our Church-rates ; a fair and full representation will free us from both ; but neither the abolition - ,of Tithes, nor of Church-rates, nor of both, will give us a fair and full r'- presentation. We may have incompetent and interested leaders ; but are your own leaders always right ; or, what is more vital, are they always honest ? Let not, however, the opinions or conduct of leaders sever the union on which our mutual success so obviously depends. Join with us, therefore, in seeking this first right of a free people. Pur sue, at the same time, the work you have so gloriously com menced—the abolition or due appropriation of tithes. You shall have our support, made more zealous by a similarity of suffering. But before all things, by the recollection of your past sufferings—by your hope of future amelioration— by your own wrones, and by your children's rights—by all that is hateful, and by all that is dear to you as men, we ad jure you to unite with us in the great struggle for a fair representation in the Legislature, which is to be achieved only by Household Suffrage and the Ballot. Do this, and give the Union a fair trial, which it never can have till the people of both countries be fairly represented. It is filly, and delusion, and fraud, to talk of giving the Union a fair trial in the Imperial Parliament, where neither you ner we are fairly represented. Do this, and if justice be still withheld ff ow you, we pledge ourselves to assist in your struggle for the favourite object of your leaders—a domestic Legislature."—Merning Advertiser. The late Mr. Cobbett, when he addressed the English public as " Most thinking people," could never have meant to include his friends the Radicals, who, in our humble judgment, have shown themselves to be of all people the most unthinking. We are not just now proceeding on the ground that if they knew how to think at all they would not be Radicals—though this is a very demonstrable con clusion ; at present we would only ask whether (their Radicalism being for the argument's sake conceded to them) it be reconcilable with any principle of common sense, or of that honesty which they profess to hold fastest and foremost, that they should be lendit g their support to the faction of the Whigs. In order to justify them in that support they ought to be persuaded of one of these two propositions—that the maintenance of the Whigs in office will accomplish the main object of Radicalism, which is to reform the Constitution by Ballot, Annual Election, and Universal Suffrage, or at least that while and so long as these reforms contiene unattainable the general government of the country is more usefully conducted by the Whigs than it is likely to be by the Conser vatives. Now, the least possible attention to the past might teach the philosophers of " the root and branch" sect hew little they have to expect from the Whigs in the quarter of Radical Reform : not, that experience has be gotten any dcubts of their willingness to perpetrate what ever revolution may serve their own interests, but it wounds their consciences to commit sins for the behoof of other people. That is an illegitimate and unprofessional way of proceeding, into which they have never been be trayed. When they carried the Reform Bill, which they intended not as an instalment, but as a settlement in full, they believed that they had compounded a dose of Reform sufficient to drug the popular hydra into a lethargy for the long term which they had made up their minds to enjoy in office. They never dreamt of putting power into the hands of the people— they fancied they were getting it securely into their own. They gave the suffrage to the 101. house holders, not because they thought that class of people were identified in interest and feeling with the labouring multitudes, but because they thought that the 101. householders would sustain the Whigs in the exclusion of the Conservatives, provided the Whigs would keep up the importance of the 101. house holders by the exclusion of the labouring multitudes. The great majority of the country was earnestly desirous of Reform, and many made great and disinterested sacri fices to achieve it ; but with reference to the objects of its authors, Reform was simply a Whig job. It was a shuffle of the cards which was to put all the tens, knaves, queens, and kings, into their own hands. And so the thing happened for the first deal. Their mistake was in sup posing that the same distribution would continue after the pack should have been mixed and cut two or three times more. They have found out their blunder now ; but they have shrewdness enough to see that no further revolution on the popular side is likely to restore their power. Or ganic change was all very well while they themselves could be the conductors of it ; but movement under new leaders, loud, underbred persons, who have the vulgarity to publish their abhorrence of Whiggery and their contempt •of Whigs, was not a thing to be at all encouraged by the Aristocracy of Brookes's. There fore, when in February last, grave Mr. Grote made his solemn march to the gates of the Constitution and formally summoned her to surrender to the black flag of the Ballot, the Whigs took their stand upon the ramparts, Lord John himself peering manfully over the pa rapet, and charged their stoutest artillery for the defence. They reasonably feared that if Ballot could produce the effect expected from it, of giving additional freedom to the expression of popular feeling, the people's just hatred and scorn of them would but show itself with so much the more effect in the elections, end diminish, even further, their el ready dwindled force in the House of Commons. The same apprehension indisposes them now to erend the Suf frage, or shorten the duration of Parliament. Their prospect of power is not in governing by the wishes of the many, any more than by the wisdom of the few ; but in consolidating the influence of a clique They have no party in the country. There is a de mocratical party, and there is a Conservative party ; but there is no Whig party—merely a Whig clique ; and this clique is only just strong enough to keep its ground by alternate combinations with the one and the other. If either were a little more powerful the Whig clique would be no more. Therefore as on the one hand it repudiates 'every measure which could strengthen the Conservatives ; so, on the other, it shrinks from any change which might advance the democracy. Propose any reform that involves an inquiry through Commissioners to be appointed by the Whig Government, and the Whig clique will support you, because this provides a bounty for their recruiting. Propose any reform that shatters or undermines the Church, and they will support you ; be cause this impairs a stronghold of their opponents. But propose any reform that tends simply to increase the weight of the people in the affairs of the State, and they will resist it even to the threat of resignation, because this reduces their own relative strength. They occupy an intermediate ground between two great currents, and their existence depends on the preservation of it, narrow and sandy as it is. A wave or two higher on the right or on the left, and the isthmus they stand on is swamped. From men so circumstanced, what fond simpli c ity i s it to expect assistance to the democratic cause r. So little indeed, is our apprehension of their proposing frequent election, extended qualification, and clandestine voting, as Government measures, that were it not for two considera tions we should feel very little uneasiness at their con tinuance in office, though, to be sure, those two reasons are rather strong ones : the first b e i ng th e i r h ost ili ty to the Established Church, a hostility in which irreverence and selfishness are now exasperated by revenge ; and the second, that marked absence of principle which leaves them always ready, for the sake of a momentary vote, to break their promises, to eat their words, and to forfeit their pledges, with a facility unprecedented in the annals of po litical dishonour. Now, it is impossible not to feel that the very existence of such a Government, independently of its actual measures, is a blight upon the country, lowering the tone of its morals at home, and tarnishing its character abroad. Why, then, if all chance of organic change must be put out of the question, as alike improbable under a Whig and under a Conservative Ministry, can any sincere Radical believe that, under the Constitution as it now ex ists, the Government will be better administered by the Whigs? The Radicals themselves admit that, between the Whigs and the Conservatives, in point of good faith there is no comparison ; in point of experience, of punctu ality, of the habit and knowledge of public business, no comparison; in point of credit with other countries, no com parison; in point of Parliamentary talent, no comparison ; yet, knowing and avowing all this, and warned by repeated experiment that nothing of the organic change they want is likely to be conceded to them by the Whigs any more than by the Conservatives, these same Radicals (thinking they think, but acting in the most unthinking way imaginable) go on, trusting and hoping, and being laughed at, awl grumbling, and then trusting and hoping again, in order to be again laughed at, and to grumble a little more.— Times. Since the expulsion of the Peel Ministry from office, but little external pressure has been brought to bear on the Government or Legislature ; there have been partial and detached demonstrations in favour of certain mea sures—the Ballot and abolition of Church-rates, for in stance—but there has been no general and combined movement, such as with a Legislature constituted like the present will ever be found necessary to carry any full and satisfactory measure of Reform. For four suc cessive sessions have the people of Great Britain re posed with confidence on the exertions of their repre sentatives and the Ministers, and for four successive sessions have the hopes of the nation been blighted wi'h disappointment —a di=appointment for which nei ther Ministers nor representatives are altogether to blame ; for, however strict their integrity and strong their inclination, it would h ave been utterly impossible for any Ministry or any House of Commons to have carried efficient measures of Reform, against the opposi tion of the Lords, without the earnest and determined support of the people. This support was not tendered, partly from the measures of the Government not having been sufficiently extensive to merit or elicit a national effort, and partly from the natural re-action of the public mind towards repose after previous excitement. Convinced at length of the fruitlessness and fallacy of confiding in others, the people are now begin n ing to pl ace t heir hopes where ttthhheee walls rown of exer tions. er looks,- se o cu ot ra w y Ethi in only they can ever rest wth tions. Expectation now te h results of n intentions Par liament, but without,andor r ext session uch by the disposition are estimated , not so much 1 of the several bran ches of the Legia azure, as by the power which may be empl o y ed to co erce them to an ac qu i escence with the claims of a just and judicious reform. Dangerous indeed to the stability of our institutions would be this loss of confidence in the ruling powers, did not the same intel ligence which teaches the people a correct appreciation of their rights, teach them also that peaceful but perse veringdei action is the most safe and ce rtain mode of accom - plishing their wishes, and obtaining that return—a full and fair representation in the Legislature. For Parliament to refuse a compliance with the distinctly-expressed wishes of the people is a virtual ab dication of the legisl a ti ve f unc ti on . Otherwise w hat _be comes of the boasted th eory o f a ll au th or ity emanating from the people ? What becom es o f the tenure— thef ree choice of the people—by which even the British Crown is held ? Controvert this position, and the British Constitu tion becomes a mockery and a lie, and the British people slaves. Even Burke—no partial authority to democratic principles—asserted that " it was from the people of Eng- Times marked by the abuse of political excitement are the most favourable for the advocacy of social Reforms. Let those journalists who consider newspapers as mere po litical machines for the service of a party, or only com mercial speculations for the sake of gain, apologise to the public for " obtruding" upon their attention questions o! social Reform whenever they happen to do so. We have never made any such apology—nor do we think any neces s iry. Believing, as we do, that that is the best political system which hest provides for the moral and social happi ness (J . man, we look upon every question affecting the man ners, habits, and general condition of society, as being withn the legitimate province of the public journalist quite as much as questions more immediately connected with the political destinies of a nation. But political topics being those which are the most exciting, and exciting topics being those which are the most popu larly attractive, it is natural enough that journalists who find it more to their account to interest than instruct the people, should prefer political topics, when they have them, to any other. While the tocsir, of agitation rings through the country, few are they whose minds can remain so serene and healthy amid the din and contagion of excitement as to be capable of attending to the calm voice of reason pleading the cause of moral and social improvement. Our readers will bear us witness that we have long laboured in the great work of social reforma tion—the improvement of our civil and criminal jurispru dence—the abolition of negro slavery—the extirpation from our laws and customs of the cruel, uujust, and impolitic im prisonment for debt—the emancipation of the white slaves of the factory systemfrom the grinding bondage of a merciless cupidity—the amelioration of the condition of the labouring population on principles opposed to the man-degrading theo ries of the political economists—Me abatement (J . the demo ralising nuisance, the Beer Shop Bill, which we endea voured to prevent when a Tory Ministry, cheered on by the treacherous applauses of the Whig free traders inflicted it upon the country—the extirpation of that great fraud, the slave apprenticeship siis tem, which the Whigs gave the country in exchange for twenty millions sterling—the abolition of the revolting cruelty of militaryflogging—the suppreesion of the disgust ing barbarity of pi ize-fights, and the prevention of all abuses of power to the torment of man or those animals which the Creator has given him to use, not to torture—the pro motion of the religious and moral education of the people, in contradistinction to the infidel schemes for planting the land with a godless population. These are some of the many questions connected with the moral and social well-being, of society which sometimes amid the din and uproar of con tending factions, sometimes in the intervals of political con tention, we hive made the subjects of discussion —n o t whellv without advantage to the community. Another question which we lately took up is the absurd and bar b irons practice of duelling—a nuisance to society which must be abated before it can be truly sail that England is ie possession of all that an enlightened nation ought to claim of rational habits and Christian civilization. This nuisance exists in spite of the severest denunciations of the law ; and why? Because the tyrant custom, that tramples on the law, makes cowards of those who administer the law, and of those who might successfully exercise against it an influence on public opinion. If we have no other requi sites for the task of encountering this great evil we have, at least, the moral courage to expose it in all its monstrous silliness—in all its hideous deformity. Strangely enough, the apologists fur this practice plead the very effrontery of the violators of the law as their excuse. They say—" The practice of duelling has long set the law at defiance—there fore it ought to continue toset the law at defiance." Though this has not been said exactly in the very words in which we have put it, the same thing has been said in substance and effect a hundred times. On the sante ground any vie which happens to become fashionable should be held sacred from the reproof of the law. They who resort to such an argument must be prepared to admit its legitimate inference —an inference that would read oddly enough if inscribed as a maxim in the book of British jurisprudence. That inference is —that the law which punishes all other offences has not and ought not to have, any controul over fashionable crimes. Is it not thoroughly ridiculous to have the maxim silent leges inter arma applied to the practice of duelling ? To have this species of social murder—of fashionable assas sination—put on a level with rebellion and civil war, which are too powerful for the ordinary laws to deal with. When the feudal system flourished, the bold baron used to sally from his castle at the head of his armed retainers, to make war on a neighbouring baron. The hostile chieftains re venged their mutual wrongs, or satisfied the " point of honour" with lance in rest, or iron mace, or battle-axe, strewing the field o f c hi va l rous encounter with the ghastly victims of " honourabl e " s t r if e . Th e laws command and the King's authority were equally violated and defied—that was the fashion of the time. But as civilization advanced the outraged law was vindicated against these petty belli gecelxareedenuttbse d, o to , , a a r n n d s the Sovereign' s power restore d . H ow is it, then, th a t t h e l aw was strong enough, when vigorously s a u n p d pre r s e s la t i h m e bthatetlefiealrdrs of their ay h i t a s r e v lf est t s o for be the dominion ofthei withstereolo ueseot edp of th e plough, and yet a llows trampled uni a t n y d , not e o fa n a l h y in b n y the silken lordlings of theo n pr im . day p able frequenter of: s gambling-houses and danglers after opera girls, but by sporting linend m r a a n pe rni rs ir polished b r i c k ma k ers , dapper clerks, an d h eroic The reason is, that against these no bl e and ignoblie ne b s ; belligerents, waging internecine war upon each other without the Sovereign's licence, the law is not vigour ous l y executed o all. Though the law is not p u t i n f orce, or, at least, exec executed at iii force so seldom as to hold out almost certain impunity is pu punity to those who practise in this line of genteel assassination, it cannot be said that any body is ignorant qf it. No prac tised pistol bully who has learned to put a ball through the THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1838. ace of spades at a shooting-gallery, goes to Wimbledon or Chalk Farm to try his skill upon the person of some fashion aping simpleton, whom ho may have plundered at a gambling-table or insulted in a tavern, but with a full knowledge that the law has declared the act of homicide by duelling a capital felony. Yet he and his second, and his alders and abettors, brave the law with all the ignominious and penal consequences which it attaches to the crime. It is time that the law should be vindicated both against its patrician and plebeian violators--vindicated, we mean, to any extent short of death, and public opinion will support the law.—Morning Herald. Whatever attachment the Whigs may affect for the principles and practice of national liberty, when Whigs are opposed to the Government, it is now clear enough that no such attachment do they really feel. On the con trary, they at once fear and hate those principles and that practice when they possess the G o vernment, and they do so because they find they are not strong . enough to keep the helm, when the free breath of political liberty sweeps over the face of society. Moreover such is the egregious vanity of the Whigs that they think nothing sug gested by them should be questioned. The difficulties of popular opposition, and the most rigid controul of Parlia ment, are, in their opinion, constitutionally right, and practically expedient, when such difficult i es and such con troul are placed in the way of a Tory Government. but they are held to be very questionable advantages when they stand in the way of anythi n g which Whig wisdom and disinterestedness have condescended to adopt. We place this to the account of vanity, as much as anything else, thowli no doubt real hypocrisy and corruption have also a good deal to do with such con tradiction. But there is an amount of political vanity in the Whigs which falls very little short of sheer craziness. They absolutely do think that there is so much philosophy —so much "enlightenment"—so much intellectuality and science, in their plans for the arrangement of every thing in which they interfere, that any opposition to them. whether it arise from the people, or the press, or from Parliament, must be wholly causeless and inexcusable, and, upon the whole, a very great public inconvenience. This insane vanity of the Whigs, which leads them into the most corrupt alliances with the worst miscreants of the mob, when they are excluded from the Government, leads them directly to despotism when they are in the Government. So convinced are they of the matchless excellence of their plans for governing, that they think the country cannot suffer so much by the corrupt practices to which they resort for getting into power, as it wit gain by the happy circumstance of their being in power. And when they have obtained their end, they are so convinced that nothing can be a 3 good as what they have determined upon in the Government, that any check or controul upon the Govern ment seems to them unreasonable and impertinent, and fit to be abolished. It was not without a smile that we read, in a demi-official Whig journal of Saturday evening, the following pla;ntive allusions to the happier state of affairs in Prussia, where then is no Parliament or Press to inter fere with the wisdom of the Administration : " In practical good government they contend they are mere advanced than we are, for that improvements proposed to the Prussian Administration, for instance, are sure to be executed, whilst here they must run the gauntlet through intrigu:•, totly, and faction, in Parlianient. We believe that our regimen of publicity has advantages which compensate for its evils, but certainly some of our meetinifs are the opprobrium of free dis cu•sion, as some of our Parliamentary tactics are a hindraece to public business." Very pleasant and consistent is all this, from an out-:ind out Whie ! Were the " Arlministratiou" only to be con -ulted, everything would be done right, but that n iu2hty, troublesome thing, the Parliament, must be show, d to in terfere with its " intrigu2," its " folly," and its " faction," and thus the sublime administrative wisdom of the Whigs is thwarted and embarrassed. These obstacles are all very well for the restraint of unenlightened Tories, but when Whigs are in the seats of Government they are " hin drances to public business." And the " liberty of the press," 'on, that is a very questionable advantage. When To ries are in power, it is to the liberty of the people what the air they breathe is to their bodily existence— if they have it not, they die." But when the en lightened and infallible Whir possess the Government, the very name of the thing becomes distasteful, and it is found expedient to use a less plebeian phraseology. The " liberty of the press" is changed to " our regi men of publicity," and even then it is treated with ex treme coldness, and it is barely admitted that it has advan ta_:es which compensate for its evils I Alas, thou once boasted " liberty of the press," this is but scurvy treat ment from thy old friends the Whigs ! Yet there is in all this nothing to surprise any man of common sense and ordi nary observation. It is very natural that people who g,v ern like the Whigs should feel the questioning of Par liament an annoyance, and the criticism of the press disagreeable. And if their Government were what they in the delirium of their vanity, perhaps, suppose it to he, we must own that the palpable distrust manifested by Parliament, and the utter contempt and scorn so openly avowed in the press, would be very unreasonable as well as irksome. The excessive vanity of the Whigs has turt:ed them crazy, and they cannot see things as they really are. If they did they would necessarily hate and despise themselves, which is a disagreeable position for any set of middle-aged gentlemen to be placed in.—Morniaz Post. PHENOMENA IN THE SOUTH ANTARCTIC OCEAN. —The white ashy material fell now continually around us, and in vast quantities. The range of vapour to the south ward had arisen prodigiously in the horizon, and began to as sume more distinctness of form. I can liken it to nothing but a limitless cataract, rolling silently into the sea, from some immense and far-distant rampart in the heaven. The gigantic curtain ranged along the whole extent of the southern horizon. It emitted no sound. March 21—A sullen darkness now hovered above us—but from out the milky depths of the ocean a luminous glare arose, and stole up along the bulwarks of the boat. We were nearly overwhelmed by the white ashy shower which settled upon us and upon the canoe, but melted into the water as it fell. The summit of the cataract was utterly lost in the dimness and the distance. Yet we were evidently ap proaching it with a hideous velocity. At intervals there were visible in it wide, yawning, but momentary rents; and from cut these rents, within which was a chaos of flitting and in distinct images, there came rushinz and mighty, but soundless winds, tearing up the enkindled ocean in their course.—Ppn's South Polar Narrative. THE FARMER AND HIS PEAS.—AboUt forty years ago a farmer at Eddleston, in Peebles—hire, had a fit Id of peas lyi ng c l ose to t h e c h urc h yar d wa ll. When nearly ripe, the youngsters of the village often stole them after dark George was determined to watch his peas one night ; so off he went, and seated himself upon the top of the wall, for the purpose of seeing better around him. It so hai penvd that two young fellows of the village determined to frighten old George. They repaired to the churchyard, the one with a black sheet around him, and the other with a white one, but unknown to each other. The one with the black sheet was there before George, and crept uncler a gravestone ; the other waited until he saw the old man fairl y seat e d u p on the top of the wall ; he then got his sheet around him, and advanced straight for George, little dreaming what was awaiting himself. When about half way through the churchyard, the black goat crept from his hiding e, and coming r o u n d th e en d o f th e c h urc h, m et his white friend right in the face; both stood aghast—both fainted and fell. After a little while the white fellow rose and looke 1 around him, where he sees again the black spirit rising from the earth ; he took to his heels and ran, cleared the wall at a bound, never once looking behind him till within the house and the door shut. Hi s compan i on , equa lly f r ightened, ran off at the other side, but did not escape so well, for instead of running down by the bridge over Eddleston water, he never saw it in his road but plunged right over head and ears to the bottom of the stream. George, honest man, kept his seat, and when he saw the spirits ascending and descending among the graves, he said that baith black dells and white dells might rise, but lie would watch his peas."—Edinbury/t Observer. MOLES AND BEETLES.--The mole is vul.4a.rly reckoned a solitary animal ; this is most fully contradicted by the following fact:—.Close to a garden in the parish of Muckart, no less than twenty moles have been taken this summer, by the same trap being regularly set in the same mole-path. A mole was caught for a while every- d iy. A young boy having caught a beetle, gave it liberty beside a dead mole ; on returning next day to the spot, the mole was very nearly buried in the earth. To ascertain whether this was the work of the beetle, the mole was gently raised, when the beetle was found busy at the work of excavation under neath. The experiment was repeated by another dead mole being deposited in another part of the field. It was two days before it was visited, when the upmost part was level with the earth, and mostly covered. A beetle of the same description as in the former case was found at work underneath. The ground was harder in the latter case. It appears, that where it is soft a single beetle will excavate the ground sufficiently to bury a mole in the course of a night. —Scotsman. UNIVERSAL SUPFRAGE.—A meeting of the Uni versal Suffrage Association was held last night, in the Justi ciary Hall, to take into consideration the present state of pub lic opinion, and the probability of the Universal Suffrage principle being generally adopted. The speakers were Messrs. Hedderwick, Purdie, and Moir, and Mr. Tait, from Auchinairn.—Scots Times. Formerly it was supposed, if a person drank milk, after a meal of fish, it would have the effect almost of poison ; but now it is prescribed to remove the danger arising from eating oysters to excess, and has been known to succeed when medicines from the apothecary's shop bad failed. - - The Proprietors of the Chelsea Water Works, at a meeting held on Friday, ordered that seven shillings a week be allowed to the widow of the poor man who lately lost his life by an accident, while employed in the engine -room of that Company's works. A singular instance of the change of fortune oc curred a few days ago in Westminster, to an elderly w oman named Margaret Winterton, who for many years had occupied a miserable tenement near the Almonry, by her coming intn possession of a sum of money, exceeding 1,0004 by the death of a relative in Paris. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. On Saturday a man of respectable appearance, named William Walsh, was brought before the LORD MAYOR in the custody of Daniel Forrester, the officer, charged upon sus picion of having been concerned in plundering the Aberdeen Bank on the 6th of May last of notes upon the following bank ing houses :—The Aberdeen Banking Company, the National Bank of Scotland, the Aberdeen Town and County Bank, the Bank of Scotland, the Commercial Bank of Scotland, the North of Scotland Bank, and the British Linea Company. The amount was upwards of 16,0001. There were, it is believed, three persons concerned in this robbery, and it is calculated that they must have been most busily engaged for some weeks in making preparations, by procuring an accurate knowledge of the habits of the inmates, and making wax impressions of the keys, &c , before they made the attempt which had succeeded so completely. The cashier lived in the house, and two servant girls were kept there, with instructions never to be absent from it at the same time. On Sunday, the 6d3 of May, however, the cashier being absent, and one of the girls having gone to Church, the other forgot the obligation upon her to stay at home, and went gadding, and between eleven 'and one o'clock, the thieves, who no doubt had taken up their residence in the neighbour hood, got into the house, and stole the immense property above mentioned. The thing was done in so neat a style, however, that it was not supposed that any stranger had been in the house until ten o'clock on Monday morning ; for the thieves, knowing it was most important to them to be able to get to town in► the mail, which was to set off at three o'clock, and might be overtaken if their enterprise should be discovered at that time, took care to lock up every cupboard, desk, and safe they had opened, and to leave behind them no trace of hurry or confusion. It is rather an extraordinary circumstance that some boys, who were playing with their shoes off at three o'clock in the afternoon of the Sunday, in a field near the town, found a bundle of keys and some bags, with the words " Aberdeen Bank" marked upon them. They immediately took the bag to their father, who handed them over to the police, by whom they were conveyed to the Bank, but as -every place for the deposit of money on the premises appeared to be quite secure, no suspicion was at all occasioned by the incident. Daniel Forrester, in consequence of inquiries which he bad made, and information he had received, believed the prisoner to be one of the persons engaged in the robbery of the Aber deen Bank, and apprehended him at Liverpool. • Mr. Humphri.s, for the prisoner, asked the witness whe ther he had gone to Liverpool to look fur the prisoner? Witness—No; but I apprehended him there from the descrip tion I had received. He was described to me under another name. _ . Henry Goddard, the Bow-street officer, went to Aberdeen to investigate the circumstances of the rcbbery, and from all he had been given to understand the prisoner's appearance corresponded with the description given of one of the parties. Witness would have apprehended the prisoner if he bad seen him anywhere. Mr. Humphries—What were the particulars of the descrip tion ? Goddard said that the party was represented to him as about 32 or 33 years old, alaciut five feet seven inches high, and quick in his movements. Mr. Humphries submitted that the evidence was entirely of too general a nature to sanction the detention of the prisoner. Mr. Bush, the solicitor to the Committee of Bankers for the prosecution of forgers and robbers, attended for the prosecution, and asked Forrester how long he knew the prisoner? The officer replied—For sixteen years. I have been looking for him this some time, and I apprehended him the first time I saw him after I received information of the rob bery of the bank. The LORD MAYOR considered that there was quite suf ficient evidence to justify him remanding the prisoner.— Remanded. MARYLEBONE. Mr. George Duppa, a young gentleman dressed in the highest style of fashion, was charged by Mrs. Harriet Willett, of 25, Gloucester-place, New-road, with the following felony : —The prosecutrix said that Mr. Duppa came to look at her lodgings on Monday last, and after telling har that he would consider about taking them, made an excuse that he had left his glove up stairs, and during her absence in search of it the parlour was robbed of three sovereigns and a half. About two o'clock this day she met Mr. Duppa near Albany terrace•, Regent's-park, and gave him into the custody of a policeman. Mr. Duppa said that, at the time the prosecutrix stated that he was at her house, he was at his father's seat in Kent, on a shooting excursion, and had on the day previous brought up some game to his brother. _ . Mr. - 11 tldwin Duppa, of No. 15, Albany-terrace, Regent's Park, a barrister, and magistrate for the county of Kent, con firmed his brother's statement. He said that he was a student at the University of Oxford, where be was about to return on Monday to pursue his studies. Mrs. Willett positively swore that Mr. Duppa was the per son who uas at her house on Monday. The Meots?aATE said there was no doubt that the prose cutrix was mistaken in the identity of the person; but as she positively swore to him, he must give bail for 1001. to appear on Tuesday. The bail was instantly put in. THAMES-OFFICE. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF CRUELTY AT SEA.—Thomas Clerk, mate of the ship Tropic, from Barbadoes, was brought before the B^nch on a warrant charging him with a series of violent assaults on John Craeknell, a seaman on board that vessel. Cracknell, who has gone mad through the ill-treat ment he received, is confined at the Lunatic Asylum at Beth nal-green. John Johnson, an able seaman on board the vessel, stated that Cracknell sailed with them from Barbadoes, he being then in good health. About five days after leaving the island the mate struck Cracknell and kicked him, a❑d on the fol lowing day, as he was going down the hatchway, he again assaulted him, and threw a handspike at his head, which hitting him inflicted a dreadful wound on his head and eye. Cracknell fell down senseless, and on animation being restored became a lunatic. Clark, finding the man troublesome, lashed him down on the deck, where he remained twenty-four hours, tl , e defendant striking him as he passed. The wretched man having called out to the defendant repeatedly to be re leased from the cords, the mate undid them, but had him lashed to the butt of the bowsprit, where he kept him exposed to all weathers, tied down by his hands and feet, for three weeks. In his cross-examination, witness denied that Crack nell had shown any signs of insanity before the defendant's ill-usage of him, the man having done his work well, and be haved himself reasonably and properly. Two surgeons certified that Cracknell's body was covered with wounds from the ropes with which he had been so long tied to the bowsprit, and with contusions from blows. In his defence, Clark sa'd lie was induced to act harshly in consequence of the man's violence whenhe became insane. The Magistrate ordered him to find bail in 2001. to appear and take his trial at the Admiralty Sessions. KENSINGTON SESSIONS. On Saturday Mr. Hall, clerk to the trustees of the poor of the parish of Kensington, came before the Magistrates, and stated that, in consequence of the large number of useless dogs prowling about the neighbourhood, the greatest alarm had been created in the minds of the inhabitants of Earl's-court, Brompton, Kensington, the Gravel-pits, Notting-hill, &c., from a report that several of these animals had been bitten by dogs in a rabid state. The householders of Camden-hill and Kensington Gravel-pits had memorialised the trustees on this subject, and the Jury of the inquest on the girl Crook, who died from hydrophobia, had agreed to a memorial, calling on the authorities to cause the destruction of useless dogs. The surgeon of the Union had written to Mr. Hall to state that he had seen a rabid dog bite tNO dogs drawing one of the trucks kept in the neighbourhood. Mr. Conn inquired why the provisions of the local Act bad not been put in tome by the parochial constables ? Pun:men, one of the beadles said, agreeably to the Act, the beadles had, in June last, issued printed bills, cautioning persons letting their dogs about unmuzzled under a penalty of M. ; that notice had, however, expired a few weeks since. The Magistrate then sent for the inspector of police, and on his arrival, Mr. CODD, after telling him that although there was no general law bearing on the question, yet the Kensing ton Local Act empowered any officer to act under its provi sion, said he had sent for him to desire that he would instruct all the policemen under him to commence seizing, on Monday next, all dogs they might find prowling at large, for the pur pose of being afterwards brought before the Magistrates, and, should no owner appear, be destroyed. The same directions were given to the beadles and parochial constables, after which the matter dropped. --- SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY. —The liberty of spe culation, says Sir John Herschel, which we possess in the do mains of theory, is not like the wild license of the slave broke loose from his fetters, but rather like that of the freeman who has learned the lessons of self-restraint in the school of just subordination. The ultimate objects we pursue, in the highest theories, are the same as those of the lowest inductions • and the means by which we can most surel y attain them have a close analogy to those which we have found successful in such inferior cases. On Friday morning the body of a seaman, a man of colour, was picked up ia the river near the eastern entrance of the London Dock, at Shadwell. It appeared to have been in the water several days. It is supposed that the deceased had fallen overboard from some vessel in the Pool. FAVERSHAM, WEDNESDAY.—This morning at eleven, a po wder mill, belongin g to Mr. Hall, povrder-n:lert.. c hant, of Faversham , blew u p with a tr emendous explosion. It is a green charged mill, situated near Ospringe. The charge had been on about four hours, and the powder had obtained i ts T full strength , a lthou g h not p re p ared f or use. top of the mill is entirely blown off, and one side shook, it is supposed to the foundation ; there were two pair of runners in the room, and the weight of powder which explod e d was upwards of 1001bs. The mill-man, Thomas Andrews, who is the only su ff ere r, was about to take off the charges ; fortunately for him h e was standing between the runners, or he must h ave b e en dashed to pieces ; as it is, h e is have is dreadfully bur n t i n t h e face, and it is feared th:-• gentleman m v e t h a otherwise apot w injured u hasred him. A medical gentlean was soon on since pronouns. d the injuries to be millnot of a dangero us na t ur e. The extent of the damage to thecannot be exact ly ascer tained. The shock produced considerable alarm in the neigh bourhood, and the report wa s ' heard at great distance. It if impossible to account for the accident , a —Kent Herald. NEW ZEALAND. An account of the changes dnd present condition of the population of New Zealand, by SAxe Bannister, Esq., was read before the statistical section of the British Association, 22d August, 1838. It would appear that since the general peace British emi gration has increased at the following rate :—ln the first five years after the peace the average number of em;grants to all parts of the world was annually 5,000. In the five years ending 1831 it was annually 20,000. In the seven years ending 1837 it was annually 70,000. The case of New Zzialand, as exhibited in the following facts, is an important illustration of all the points connected with the subject : The New Zealand group consists of the Northern Liam], the Southern Island, Stewart's Island, with some smaller islands. Its situation is between 34 and 48 of south lati tude, and 167 and 178 of east longitude. Its exact extent is uncertain ; according to the account put forth by the New Zealand Association, it is about 95,000 square miles, or 60 millions of acres ; according to evidence given before the House of Lords in 1838 it is about 10,000 square miles. POPULATION.—The population consists of Ist, native tribes ; 2d, white residents ; 3d, white visitors, or transient population ; and 4th, mixed race. FIRST.— WITH RESPECT TO THE. NATIVE TRIBES.— In 1769-1773 the population of the whole group was estimated at 100,000, according to the testimony of Dr. Reinhold Forster, contained in his observations made during a voyage round the world (1778, 4t0., p. 224). " The southern isle of New Zealand has very few inhabitants ; but the northernmost, according to the accounts we had from Captain Cook, and from what we saw in' some few places as we passed by, is much better peopled—nay, in some spots, very populous ; therefore, allowing 100,000 souls to both isles, we rather think our estimate to fall short of the true population." Mr. Montefiore, in his evidence given before the House of Lords, in the year 1838, says, with reference to the present time, " I have heard the population stated at 500,000 to 1,000,000 in the whole country, but I think this is impossible ; and Mr. Coates, the Secretary to the Church Missionary Society, in his evidence before the same Committee, states that " there are above 200,000 in the whole country, viz., 105,000 in the northern island and 95,000 in the southern." Mr. Polack, in his evidence on the same occasion, states that " there are five natives to three square miles of land, or 130,000 inhabitants in the whole country ;" and, in his recent work on New Zealand (Vol. 11., p. 343), he says that " the native population is, about 150,000, or three persons to about two square miles." The Rev. W. Gate states that there are about 180,000 in the northern island, and adds, " I have seen the greater proportion of them." The• native classes are the chiefs, the ' common free people, and the slaves, or prisoners of war. The chiefs are about one-tenth part of the whole. A considerable number of the natives are absent from New Zealand in foreign ships, or in visiting foreign countries. SECOND.—WHITE RESIDENTS.—There are from 1,800 to 2,000 British subjects in New Zealand, of whom 158 are runaway convicts or sailors. On the Souther.) Island there have been Europeans during the last thirty-five years, principally sailors and whalers ; two or three hundred Eng lish are settled in Queen Charlotte's Sound, in Cook's Straits. There is another English settlement in Stewart's Island, and another in Dusky Bay. The first religious mission was established in 1814, when some runaway convicts were found in the North Island. Traders had already bartered European goods for flax. In a petition addressed to King William IV., in 1837, by 193 persons, including 24 Wesleyan and Church missionaries, it is stated that " several of your Majesty's subjects have resided in New Zealand for more than 20 years, since which their numbers have accumulated to more than 500 north of the river Thames alone. The frequent arrival of persons from England and the adjacent colonies, is a fruitful source of augmentation, and there is reason to anticipate a rapidly rising colony of British subjects here." It was given in evidence before the House of Lords, that " European settlers have increased wonderfully of late" ; and Mr. Polack, in his work on New Zealand, states that there are " 150 white residents in the Bay of Islands," • and that there are three or four whites with every tribe, the Chiefs not suffering them to be taken. THIRD.—WHITE VISITORS, OR TRANSIENT POPULA TION.-1642. Tasman, Dutch, mutual hostilities between natives and visitors. Oct. 1769, Cook, English ditto. Dec. 1769, Surville, French ditto. 1772, Marion, French, ditto. 1791, Vancouver, English. From the time of Vancouver's visit to the present day (1791-1838) an uninterrupted intercourse has been kept up with New Zealand, some thousands of vessels of every description having touched on every part of the coast, from the North Cape to the land farthest south. NORTHERN ISLAND.—The Bay of Islands was princi pally preferred after 1791. • One thousand European and American sailors have been seen at one time in the Bay of Islands. In 1836 the following ships visited the Bay of Islands:— British Whalers 64 Ships of War 2 Traders... 27... 93 American ditto. 49 French ditto.... 3 Tahitan Traders SOUTHERN ISLAND.—In 1836 from 12 to 36 ships were seen at t time in the Southern Islands ; and 300 sailors have been known to " run" at a time there. FOURTH.—THE MIXED RACE.—A considerable popula tion is springing up from the marriages or other intercourse of white settlers and visitors with New Zealanders. _ The white iohabitants and visitors are chiefly English, with many Americans, and some few French and other Europeans. The classes are-Ist, Official persons, as the English and other agents, consuls, arid occasionally the military and navy ; 2d, the Missionaries dependent on societies in Eu rope ; 3d, traders ; 4th, sailors ; sth, convicts ; and Gth, mechanics and labourers. The whole of these people do some good, and all have done some evil in New Zealand ; and the particular influ ence of the different classes upon the character of the natives is the most interesting circumstance in the history of New Zealand. What that influence has hitherto been will be easily inferred from the facts brought forward under the several heads in this statement. WHITE VISITORS, OR TRANSIENT POPULATION.—The circumstances attending the transient visits of Europeans to New Zealand have not differed from those which have attended their occasional visits to all savage countries. Want of caution, and want of consideration for the rights of the natives, h,ve led to frequent massacres on both sides. But the New Zealanders have generally evinced a good disposition towards their visitors ; and there is less blood shed at present between the two parties than was common in former years, from the times of Tasman, Cook, and the rest. The killing of a white man by a New Zealander is now more rare than the murder of white men by white men in the country. THE FRENCH.—The chief peculiarity in New Zealand, with regard to white people, is the asserted dislike of the French by the natives, which involves cirumstances of the greatest importance, and in which there is a mystery proper to be cleared up. It is certain that one of the earliest visits to New Zealand by a French ship occurred in 1772, the commander being M. Marion du Fresne, and that, from some unknown cause, his friendly intercourse 'with the natives was suddenly changed into hostility, which ended in the killing of M. Marion and many of his officers by the natives, and in the French taking extremely sanguinary revenge. It is asserted that, in consequence of this unhappy event, the New Zealanders have a peculiar dislike to the French ; but this is in the highest degree improbable. There is, perhaps, no example of a lasting feeling of vengeance in any savage people for the civilised nations that have injured them. Their placability in this respect is one of their re markable characteristic:, and it is altogether distinct from their revengeful disposition in individual cases. MACCUBBINIANA.—THREE APPEARANCES.— The late Lord Douglas, although himself an Episcopaliin, courted upon every occasion the company of Maccubbin, the Presbyterian Minister of Douglas. His Lordship seldom visited Douglas Castle, the ancient family scat, except in the time of grouse shooting, but he frequently invited the country Pastor to spend a day or two with him at Bothwell. Upon one occasion, when his Lordship had for a guest a titled Bishop of his own Church, Maccubbin was particularly asked to make one of the party. After dinner, when the reverend guests had partaken of some of his Lordship's choicest wines, his Lord ship remarked that his own favourite beverage had not yet ap peared, being under a sentence of condemnation. No sooner had his Lordship said so, than a hint was given that its pre- sence would be most acceptable. This was accordingly ordered, and a bottle was very quickly despatched, when the Bishop declared it excellent, and moved for a second appear ance, after which Maccubbin would prononuce absolution, ac cording to the rules of his Church. Quick as thought the old Presbyterian retorted, " My Lord Bishop, I believe you to be very well versed in the rules and tenets of your own Church, but you betray a lamentable ignorance of Presbyterianism ; for, in all cases of scandal, we never absolve until after three several appearances I" Glasgow Argus. ENGLISH LA W.—Law is become in England not but the most rapacious and dishonest o and ost e x th Pern most licentious of strolling comrdians are only l trades a t d h e e s ; m those who, under the title of barristers, accompany the Eng. lish Judges in their Circuits. Itl cross-questioning, as they term it, or examination of deponents against their client, they bear no respect whatever to honour or genius, or any kind of worth ; and the accuser, who has been robbed, de frauded, or otherwise injured, has a graver and more intole rable wrong- i.-pending over him, not only than what he has already suffered, but even than what the criminal himself, in most instances, has to fear; so:rris shameless .thwe W. Landon so un restricted the invective, of bayrristers,—S. IsiAVAL INTELLIGENCE• (From the Hampshire Telegraph of Saturday.) PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 13.—The Actaeon, 2S, Capt. Res s:ll, and Orestes, 18, Com. Hambly—the former to suppll the p!aee of the Cleopatra, the latter to relieve the Har rier, ordered home to be paid off—sailed on Tuesday, to South America, via Plymouth, taking despatches for Rear- Admiral Ross, the Commander-in-Chief in the Pacific, and Commodore Sulivan, at Rio. These ships took out a number of first-class. boys for disposal on the Brazils and Pacific stations. The Edinburgh, 74, Capt. Henderion, and Pique,. Capt. Boxer, have this week been ordered to the West Indies, where they are to be placed under the orders of the Hon. Sir Charles Paget. The Pique sailed yes terday, and the Edinburgh will follow on Monday nex t ' The former embarked 33 men and '2l boys, and the Edin burgh 17 men and 8 boys, for the disposal of the Con"' The Curlew and Waterwitch, of 10 guns each, ar e ordered to be examined, repaired, and got ready for com missioning. The Buzzard sailed on M o nd a y f r om Plymouth, for the West Indies ; from thence she will proceed to Sierra Leone, touching on her way out at 'Feneriffe. The Barossa transport arrived at Spithead on Thursday, to embark detachments of the Bth and 89th Regiments for the West Indies. She will then proceed to Cork, to em bark other detachments for the same quarter. We find , on inquiry, that this ship is in excellent condition, notwith standing an assertion to the contrary in an Irish journal. The Eagle transport, at Cork, embarked a large detach ment of the 65th Regiment, under Major Farquharson, on Saturday last, for New Brunswick. Detachments of the 23d and 93d embark in the same ship. The Apollo trOP ship, Mr. A. Kerley, master, sailed on Friday last, having on board the 94th Regiment, commanded by Colonel Pell K.H., for Ceylon, amounting to 644 men, women , an children. The Numa transport, daily expected from Halifax, will call here to convey the depot companies of the 90th Rai' meat to Chatham. '[he 95th Regiment has embarked at Cork in the JoPi ter troop ship, Mr. Fulton, commander, and was to sail °a Thursday evening for Ceylon. The Gem, Royal Yacht schooner, G. Tomline, gag' sailed from Gibraltar on the 22d ult. for Malaga. NAVAL PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.-- -P" TIONS.—Mates—H. Duruar e sq, of the Britaunia , 211 _ George G. Otway, to the rank of Lieutenant. master af Assistant—Cook, of the Defiance packet, to the rank of Master. APPOINTMENTS.—Lieut e nants—J. Peirse to 07 S;ag ; C. R. Watson and W. M. J. G. Pasco to the C ( ; )3 0 Guard. Pursers—J. Mitchell (b J to the Race r, °e t M•Dereaott, superseded. Mate s —. York Paterson, j Excellent, to Talavera ; C. W. Bonham to Actteen ; Voules to Fair Rosamond ; an d J. H a ncock to Eseefillass- Midshipmen—G. F. Day to Racer. Volunteers, I s t t l, a —J. C. Byng to the Ra cer . Cl er k s —R. G. Hogg to t R(cer. Messrs. G. J. Napier, of the Excellent, and W. : s h e . ridge, of the Rover, pastkd their examination for Lie e nants on Monday. fficortr Notwithstanding the Coronation promotion of 0 he the official Navy List. exhibits the following decrease in t last quarter, compared with the preceding one, viz., caps, captains, two commanders, 10 lieutenants, 21 s ure op and 15 a,s stant-sur geons . I n t h e f o ll ow ing thereincri ta ase :—Masters, 24 ; pursers, 4. The Lords Com m i ss i oners o f th e Admiralty bsi,c,ia. awarded a pension o f 241. p er annum , an d a gratuity of ter on board h er M a j esty ' s s hi p Cli o ( pa id off last ee for faithful s erv i ces . Thompson, quarterls): and the silver med a l, t o William (From the Devonport Independent. ) 0 P . 1 06 PLYMOUTH, OCT. I3.—H er M a j es ty's sh i p a pa Com. G. Ramsey, went out of harbour on ThursdaY, was paid advance of wages on FridaY Her Majesty's s hip R over , 16, C . om. T. NV. C. s a l i mon'ls, mill move into the Sound this day (Saturds9)'4o.. will be paid a dv ance on M on d ay . H er Majesty's shiP and deste, 18, Corn. Harry Eyres, will move into the SO" e%- Sunday. The Pique, 36, Capt. E. Boxer, des i‘i ti n th petted from Portsmouth. , These ships are all and will no doubt, sail together from this places fo r of America and the West Indies, and will try their r at h, s &c. on the passage. Her Majesty's ship Edinbull. 74, Capt. W. Henderson, and the Pique, 36, CnP t. d e r Boxer, will take out for disposal in the squadron. Inland Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Paget, about 210 s eamen 0 boys torn the guard-ships of the Ordinary at Se a and Portsmouth ; and the marines are to be taken 11. head-quarters at Portsmouth. tb, Admiral Durham, Commander-in-Chief at Portstrion arrived here in his yacht on Saturday , a nd sailed ne in ° y, M. Steam-vessel Mega3ra, Lieut. Goldsmith Wednesday for the above port. ' ea ie hourly ed, arrlY on H iri( N i l ay from the Mediterranean ; * and cms i nt° bw bour the same day. H.M. Pa,.l-^t rered ana repair( d, will be taken •ut of dock h . .. :acke, Leindeer, having been new eoPPe l . n M. Packet Nightingale, fitted as a depot t f l o g r of Spain. H. M. Packet Goldfinch masts and spars, are , with her to be sold out of th e service Marquis of * ( freight sh i p ) is to call bell, Huntley, (freight o f from Deptford, to embark one officer, and 31 privates Gi. the 66th regiment, and then 'd to Cork and proceed bralter. In Hamoaze—Royal Adelaide, 104, Captit• Commander T. w..c. Sym onds ; nolo° day'tti li'oar6th ► Coast Wh'ie ; San Josef, 110, Ca ptain J. N. Tayler ► der Harry E:tres ; Grecian, 16 , Commander vv 1 ,, , 1 , i ,.. Sn►yth ; Rolla, 10, Lieut.-Com. Charles H a ll ; ,;": cat , deer, jt 6, Lieut.• Co m. H. P. Dicke ; Lively , 001 1-4 00 . John R. Benson ; Megmra , steam-vessel , Lieu" der H. C. Goldsmith ; Duck and Stvail, lighters. R a msey In the Sound—Pilot, 16, Commander George Modeste, 18, C°,,,,0v-tr!er;7' Fin: .1., MRS. 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Th nobery years the highly d Mr. onla o f Sir respected representative of the firm Burnett and Sons. _ aler, On the ' ke Watson Es 7th inst., at Dover, aged Generallo° q., eldest son of the late C zn*.i - - Butler. , _ e d 5. om 1.. sal y On the 12th inst M of Spitalfields, . , , r. George Gregory, . - !zacarias JP On the 1 0 h • •' De -t inst., at St. Mary Axe, Abraham fon, Esq., aged 74. J a m„ Camper Wright,n the 13th inst., in Albemarle-street, the Rev. o f Eton. WM. A., Rector of Walkern Herts, and Fellow , u ater On the 12th inst., aged 16, Margaret 0.- blest 0 a 50 of Mr. Aspinwall, of Hanover -street, Hanover-square. v . e ..stree t° On the 9411 lust., aged 73, Mr. Henderson, ot Cireat_...f,..„-r-: - --.. Pl4-6C of N London i Printed and Published by AI ÜBDO Y°„ t h e c ount) 112, Strand, at The Sun Office. Na. 112, Strata; , a s Collier, for Mall of fdidelleem— Monday, October 15, 1538.